Huxley’s “Brave New World”- Prose Analysis 1 of 2

Example:
““To-morrow,” he would add, smiling at them with a slightly menacing geniality, “you’ll be settling down to serious work. You won’t have time for generalities. Meanwhile…”
Meanwhile, it was a privilege. Straight from the horse’s mouth into the notebook. The boys scribbled like mad” (Pg. 4)

Animal imagery is out of control in Brave New World. Just look at the first chapter. There's the repetition of "straight from the horse's mouth," Foster's claim that "any cow" could merely hatch out embryos, the dullness that "Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs." Later, when John goes to the hospital, he sees the Delta children staring at Linda with "the stupid curiosity of animals." The hordes of identical bokanovskified twins seem to him "maggots." It looks like Huxley's message is clear: the new world has so dehumanized its citizens that they now resemble little more than animals. The irony is that "civilization" should seek to bump up man, to make him less prehistoric, to put some distance between him and the other creatures of the world.